A pre-Inca mummy unearthed in Peru’s Puente Piedra district reveals details about a young woman’s life and ancient Chancay rituals.

The gas workers in Peru discovered a mummy dated to a thousand years old during the time of pipe installation in Lima. The ...

The mummy had gone unnoticed despite urban development in a district where agricultural fields have been converted into ...

Humorous pottery and complex tattoos. The Chancay culture was a pre-Hispanic civilization that lived in the valleys of present day coastal Peru from about 1000 to 1470 CE. It was likely absorbed ...

Living along the coast of Peru from around 900 to 1500 A.D., the Chancay people was well known for their impressive artwork, including wood carvings, ceramics, and textiles.

Brazilian and Chinese authorities are evaluating the construction of a railroad to the Chancay mega-port in Peru through Acre, near Bolivia, to Bahia on the Atlantic coast, which would reduce the ...

MA LIU SHUI, HONG KONG—According to a Live Science report, paleobiologist Michael Pittman of The […] ...

The environment along Peru’s coastline often naturally mummifies remains. Workers laying new natural gas pipeline in Lima, ...

From left, drawing of a human ceramic figure depicted with body art similar to the mummified remains, example of textile art, location of modern Chancay along the coast of Peru (Michael Pittman et ...

GAS workers have discovered a 1,000-year-old mummy just a metre below the surface of the Earth during a routine pipe ...

Living along the coast of Peru from around 900 to 1500 A.D., the Chancay people was well known for their impressive artwork, including wood carvings, ceramics, and textiles.